Thanks to Bill Coleman for sending me an article from the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) on their Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year. (Folks who have been involved with Blandin for a while may remember that Robert Bell from ICF did a videoconference with Blandin in February, 20006. There was a video archive. I can’t get it to work from Dublin, sadly the good folks who had hosted the video for us may have taken it down.)

Super quick background on the awards: ICF spends about a year selecting the top community. In October, they select 21 Smart Communities (or Smart21) from the nominations they have received. In January, they pare those 21 down to the Top Seven Communities. In May, they announce the Intelligent Community of the Year at the Building the Broadband Economy conference.

Anyways, the ICF has announced their top 7 communities. I’ll paste the brief descriptions from the ICF web site below: Continue reading →